Till the Fat Lady Sings , Part 3. by Barnet Shenkin prev/next

Here was the very next board, no 60. at this time our team trailed by 30

Dlr: W Vul: E/W	N97 A84 A1096 A742
WJ8632 32 8 K8653		E105 Q975 KQJ7543 -----
	SAKQ4 KJ106 2 QJ109

imps.

West	North	East	South
Shenkin	Cliff	Coyle	Burn
P	1N	2*	X
XX**	P	2***	3N
P	P	P	P

                                                                                            

                                                                    *   Hearts and another   .    **   5 Clubs    *** Diamonds 

                                               In our room ,after Coyle's intervention over 1N, N/S never looked like bidding slam.The best slam is 6 which will go down, ,due to the 5-0 break. 6N has 12 tricks with the aid of two finesses. Let's see how the doc handled the hand       

                              

West	North	East	South
Niblett	Haase	Ellsworth	Cuthbertson
P	1	P	1
P	2	P	6
P	P	X	P
P	P

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6  X    was worth  1210 points when East's double was not a success. East meant it as a Lightner double for a Club lead .He hoped his partner had long clubs, and would guess to give him a ruff. In fact, no lead or defense  would defeat 6X. Less the game bid in the other room ,this was a gain to our team of 12 imps, and we now trailed by 18 imps with four boards to play.

Board 61 was a push and on board 62 our team gained 3 imps, when I doubled a game that was bid in both rooms, and went down one. Only two boards to play, and our team was down by 15 imps.

To be concluded in part 4

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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